The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-06-07

COUNTIES, ana men 90 IN ana out OIL
office One day my friend Creighton,
late Of New Zealand, is a Minister, the
next he is again running his live news
paper. The English and native jour
nails wax wroth on party questions
But no money can be raised. Kala-
kaua hes spent in foolish debauchery
all the dollars he could lay his hands
on. Now he sleeps all day to prepare
himself for dinner at night, and after
wards to spend hours in his bath house
by the sea, where the hulahula is
danced before him and his boon com
panions. In Australia we 90 to st.
Kilda to battle, and to suffer a recov-
cry 1t is so true that we do not al
ways succeed, but the attempt has
been made. Kalakaua's Joss House
is simply bagnio. Drink is removing
the veneer of education and training
from this descendant of cannibal
chiefs, and so he sends to his Kahunas,
and his brain gets so muddled with their
advice that he would gladly do any
thing to get rid of the majesty with
which he has been endowed. He will
sell Hawaii to the highest bidder, al
though he has no title to it, He will
come to Melbourne and be ttfed as
king "by the grace Of God" Perhaps
he can sell his title here. Is he not as
much king as any other1 Has not
Hawaii ministers and consuls and re-
representatives. throughout the globe1
And are there not titles, orders and
decorations to be given away And
also "Rings" Of officials, even as in
well governed Great Britain, where
Albert Edward p. sheds the agis of his
name over the selffaithful Cunliffe
Owenp Kalakaua is a king, and if we
ask him here the people who have
such love for royalty will have to
treat him as such or be false to their
most faithful traditions.
have il from his Excellency Sir
Henry Loeb that il is his intention to
have "house party" at Government
House during the Exhibition time, to
which will be invited leading repre-
sentatives Of intellect from Europe and
America. This is very graceful idea,
and hope the programme will be car.
ried out. Imagine King Kalakau
amongst such setl He might be al
home win some OF the late ha6itKes
The first families might invite him tc
dinner; Mentor would run him around
the bars and show him life. But i
King Kalakaua is asked here officially
the result will be disgrace and ignomi
ny to all concerned. King he ''by the
grace Of God1" Why, this patch o.
royalty has not shred ofreal authority
The real King Of Hawaii is Claus
Spreckels, the California millionaire
sugar planter in the islands, banker il
Honolulu, ship owner ON the Pacific
whose flag flies over the magnifcen
Mariposa and Alameda, best and fast
est Of steamers which bear the Cali
fornian mails to and from our shores
and who financially has Hawaii in hi
hands. The Spreckels mansion a
Honolulu is more magnificent than tn,
palace" The Spreckels brothers vii
entertain you more magnihcently thai
the King. Men Of mark these younI
German Californians. Did not one O
them shoot M. de Young, proprietor O
: the Chronicle, for an attack on hi
father an aim truer next time Mick,
said he when the case was thrown on
Of court The Princess Likelike starve
] herself poor drunken Kalakaua send
: for his kahunas, who tell him to get ri
of the white men, and l dare say h
] would like to do so. But he is a bah
) in the hands of these daring hnancier.
y who have used him as they thought fl
and would "deport" him tomorrow
. and burst up his shady soverelgntyIf
! suited their purpose. Ask King Kal:
u kaua to the Centennial Exhibition
: Far better ask the "uncrowned king,
Claus Spreckels, or one of his boys.